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After the surfaces are smoothed, I do an x-acto cross cut. Some guy in England showed this with a box cutter. Seemed anti-to achieve flat surface; but provided just enough "bite" without raising the surface to be glued. Obviously dont go too deep.

This guy has some ideas. I am not sure how the screws would work with what we do. Most of the guys on Youtube just use clamps. I think using a thinner layer of glue and letting it pre-dry a little so it is more tacky might also help.

Thanks for the information. I'm always looking for better ways to hold scarf joints while the glue dries. I've tried salt, clamping the pieces to a board to hold them, putting a cut off staple between pieces and many others. I still wish I could find the ultimate holding method.

Good question Tom. I just used clamps. I put a shake of salt in the glue before I clamped it to help prevent it from sliding. That helped a little. It still slid a little.

Next time I will try clamping each board in place separately and then clamping the glue joint. So, I would have one clam on the neck holding in in place. I would have one clamp on the headstock. When I like how they are positioned, I will clamp the glued joint.